Method of printing floor-cloths



JAMES ALBRO, OF ELIZABETH, NEW? JERSEY.

METHOD OF PRINTING FLOOR-CLOTI-IS.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 26,075, dated November 15, 1859'l Toall whom fit may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES ALBno, of Elizabeth, in the county of Essexand State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement inPrinting Floor- Cloths; and I do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had tothe annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, in which-Figure l, isa perspective view of a pad or cushion on which the color isdistributed and from which the block is charged. Fig. 2, is a verticalsection of the same. Figs. 3 and 4, are face views of blocks. Figs. 5

and 6, are vertical sections of the same. Fig. 7 is a view of a pieceoffloor cloth printed according to my invention. Fig. 8, is a perspectiveview of a comb used in the process.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the severalfigures.

The object of this invention is to print floor cloths of various designsin imitation of wood, technically termed graining, and also in imitationof marble or any substance or material which has a veined, variegated orclouded surface similar to many species of woods and marbles.

The invention consists in a novel way of charging the blocks with color,so that the latter will be distributed or so disposed on the face of theblock that it will be transferred, under suitable pressure of the block,direct to the cloth so as to produce the desired effect. This result isobtained by covering the pad or cushion with a suitable quantity ofcolor and by means of a comb or other convenient tool or implementscratching or graining the surface of the pad or cushion in a mannersimilar to that done by painters in imitating different woods, marbles,etc. The pad or cushion thus treated having an ornamented surface ofcolor which is transferred to the block as the latter is pressed on itand said color under the pressure of the block transferred to the cloth.

To enable those skilled in the art to fully understand and construct myinvention I will proceed to describe it.

In carrying out this invention I prefer to use the blocks which haveparallel bars or ledges to form the ground work of the figure. The clothto be ornamented or printed according to my invention may be prepared inthe usual way, and the block A, first used is charged with color thesame as usual and pressed on the cloth leaving an impression or figureformed of parallel lines, as shown in Fig. 4. In Fig. 3, the secondblock is shown. This block B, is charged with a color darker than thatused on block A, and it is pressed on the cloth so that its bars orledges will fit between the lines formed by the preceding block therebycovering the surface of the cloth.

The pad or cushion C, from which the block B, is charged with color isshown in Figs. l and 2. This pad or cushion is constructed in the usualway and covered with a suitable quantity of the color. The face of thepad or cushion is then combed or scratched by means of a painters combD, shown in Fig. 8, so that the color on C, will be removed from somespots and raised in ridges on others, the surface of the pad resemblingthe grain of wood or the clouded or mottled appearance of marbleaccording to the style or character of the combing. In Fig. l, thecombing is intended to represent the graining of wood.

After the pad or cushion C, is combed or grained as described, theoperator presses the block B, on it and said block will be charged withcolor, said color being disposed on the face of the block in a mannercorresponding precisely with the combed or grained surface of pad orcushion C, see Figs. 3 and 5, and when block B, is pressed on the cloth,the color will be transferred to it in precisely the same state, (seeFig. 7 in other words, the combing or graining of the ad or cushion C,will be transferred by the block B, to the cloth, with this difference,however, that the pressure of the block on the pad or cushion and alsoon the cloth, serves in a measure to soften or blend the combing orgraining which effect is still further increased by the parallel bars orledges of the block. The whole when finished being a very excellentimitation of either wood or marble according to the style of combingmade by the operator on the pad or cushion C.

It will be seen from the above description that the invention is notrestricted to the employment or use of two blocks, the invention beingapplicable to complicated method; but

Having thus described my invention, I

claim as new in the printing of ,oil cloths and desire to secure byLetters Patent,

The production of grained or Variegated 15 designs upon oil cloth byapplying the printing blocks to cushions or pads upon which the colorshave been previously grained or combed as herein set forth.

JAMES ALBRO.

Vitnesses R. S. SPENCER, WV. 'IUsoI-r.

